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Cortex Catalogs: More than Microservices

Cortex is an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) that reduces friction in developing software that stays aligned to standards of excellence. While all IDPs offer some cataloging functionality, the ability of that catalog to match existing business logic can mean the difference between a true system of record, and yet-another--tool.

Marking deployments in Redgate Monitor 14

Redgate Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With RedgateMonitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. Redgate Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

Navigating the cost of cloud storage in the public sector

Like many other industries, organisations in the public sector have been keen to make use of the flexibility offered by cloud computing, but are now observing unpredictable and rising costs. Much of which can be mitigated through careful planning and on-premise infrastructure. Government guidance now recommends switching to a strategy of the most appropriate solution for a problem, rather than a one-size-fits-all or carte blanche approach of shifting all applications to the cloud.

Test and deploy containerized PyTorch models to Heroku

PyTorch is an open source machine learning (ML) framework that makes it easy for researchers and developers to move their projects from prototyping to production. With PyTorch, you don’t have to learn complex C++ code - you can use regular Python for your ML projects. This makes it a great choice for anyone who wants to get started quickly and easily with ML.

Helping companies go beyond savings with Spot by NetApp for FinOps

We’re thrilled to be back again at FinOps X in San Diego. The premier FinOps event of the year, it’s a fitting place to proudly announce that the Spot by NetApp product portfolio is now a FinOps Certified Platform. This FinOps Foundation certification reaffirms our commitment to supporting the FinOps framework and best practices.

Azure Advisor Cost Recommendations: Implementation Best Practices

Microsoft Azure offers a variety of solutions for cost management, with Azure Advisor being one of the core features. Azure Advisor provides insights into reservations and right-sizing for various Azure resources. While Microsoft Azure excels at building and deploying solutions, there is often a notable gap when it comes to operations and cost management.

Want more software reliability? It starts with leadership

If you want to improve reliability, it has to be important from the top down. "As part of the CTO or leadership owning it, they need to tell folks that it's important in the product roadmap, in some of the development schedule, that we spend time on it, that the CEO is the person that holds people accountable, that they review the metrics, that they sit in the outages, that they understand the quality of the software.

Gremlin for AWS: Demo from Install to Testing

Gremlin for AWS is a suite of tools to more easily find and fix the reliability risks that cause downtime on AWS. The cloud opens up a range of reliability challenges that didn’t exist before, especially for customers running distributed, mission-critical workloads. Teams experience the pain of failed migrations, frequent incidents, and reliability toil, but often struggle to modernize their approach to reliability as they modernize their infrastructure. That’s where Gremlin for AWS can help.